Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage /

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"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mustakeem, Sowande' M., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
Slave ships > Atlantic Ocean.
Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Enslaved persons > Violence against > Atlantic Ocean.
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > Atlantic Ocean.
Enslaved women > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Négriers (Navires) > Atlantique, Océan.
Esclaves > Commerce > Atlantique, Région de l'.
Esclaves > Violence envers > Atlantique, Océan.
Esclaves > Santé et hygiène > Atlantique, Océan.
Femmes esclaves > Atlantique, Région de l'.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Slave ships
Slave trade
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene
Enslaved women
Gewalt
Handelsschiff
Sklavenhandel
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean Region
Middle Passage
Atlantique (océan)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Middle passage studies and the birth of slavery at sea
  • Waves of calamity
  • Imagined bodies
  • Healthy desires, toxic realities
  • Blood memories
  • Battered bodies, enfeebled minds
  • The anatomy of suffering
  • A tide of bodies
  • Epilogue: The "frankenstein" of slavery: a meditation on memory.

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